St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-04
ADAY'S DEVELOPMENTS.
What the Arbeiter Says-The Eff
forts for Pardon.

CHICAGO, Nov. g. The Arbeiter
Zeitung, the organ of the anarchists,
to-day has long editorial on the action
of the supreme court. in which it says:
The request of our eight comrades for a
writ of error has been refused by the federal
supreme court. For hundred years the
United States enjoyed the reputation of being
free country. Up to short time ago such
reputation was certainly most Unsuitable.
But lately a few pOssessOrs of the colossal
riches produced by the common people
usurped a criminal power to
pervert and misinterDret the laws
created by the fathers of this
Republic in good faith and a progressive
spirit. They splatter with mud the name of
the republic. The supreme court at Wash
ington, the general imperial court at Leipsig
and the martial courts at st. Petersburg stand
on the same level. The justice which is be-
ing distributed under the auspices of Jay
Gould. Vanderbilt ct al. wears not only a
bandage over her eyes, but also q watchword
Oh her breast, which reads: 1.-The public be
id"
for the condemned anarchists came in
by mail and messenger. Detroit sent
one solid roll of $500 names, and Grand
Rapids contributed 500 petitioners. 1t
is claimed that nearly 100000 signatures
have already been secured.
EX-Secretary of the Treasury Win
dom, who arrived in this city from New
York this evening, was asked by re-
porter what is thought of the anarchist
case in the East. He said:
The people have been anxiously awaiting
the verdict and 1 believe the conservative
people of the country are well satisfied with
it. While many are moved by the dictates of
humanity to pity for the condemned men
very few there are that have talked with
but think these men should be punished
THE ORJECT OF THE VISIT
of Messrs. Salter and Lloyd to the an
archists on Wednesday developed to-day
by the circulation of three different
petitions among the citizens, asking
the governor to save the anarchists.
The first of these contained the names
of all seven men, and was signed during
the day by Judge Culey, Judge Booth,
Aid. Manierre and others. The sec
Ond petition does not contain
the names Of Engle, Fischer and
Lingg. The last one has only the names
of Fielden and Schwab on it, these be-
singled out as the men most likely to be
saved. August Spies, Samuel Fielder
and Nicholas Schwab signed a petition
this afternoon humbly begging the gCv-
ernor to commute their sentences.
Those three of the seven condemnt
men are the only ones who have not
written letters to the governor
that they would not accept
combinations of their sentences,
and that all efforts in that direction
were without their sanction. The sig
natures of Fieldin and Schwab were
secured this morning by Capt. Black
and l.. ID. Oliver, who visited the pris-
oners at the Jail and had private confer
ences with them. All sorts of entreat-
les were adopted to get Spies to sign the
petition but he resolutely refused to do
so, as did also Lingg, Engel, Fischer and
Parsons. At 8: 80 p. m. the same petit
tiOns were brought TO the ia by DR..
Schmidt, Aid. Frank Stauber and II.
Llnnemeyer. with permission from the
sheriff to confer with the condemned
men. Gen. Schilling
ARRIVED LATER
and Joined the party. 1t was plain that
Spies had weakened since the morning
conference. He read the petition over
several times. After an hours pleading
Spies said, ''Well, give ME pen," and
with flourish his name was appended
below The visitors then turned
their attention to the other four men,
who have written letter4 declining ex-
eeutive clemency. George Schilling
talked long and earnestly with Parsons,
but seemed to make no impression upon
him. Lingg absolutely refused to con-
slider the topic He and Engel talked
together and frequently smiled. Fischer
seemed to be in doubt as to what
he should do. Frank Stau-
Der paid him special atten-
ton, and occasionally pattcd h IN OH the
back in an encouraging way. but he q d
not relent from the position which lie